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[Angling] Red Palmer : a practical treatise on fly fishing

TAYLER, James · 1888

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London Empire Printing & Publishing Co. Second Edition of this angling title. Crown 8vo (184 x 118mm): [6],58,[6]pp, with fascinating illustrated angling advertisements bound front and backs. Original olive green pictorial cloth, covers paneled in blind, upper cover lettered i...

[Syphilis] La Réaction de Wassermann. Sa valeur dans le diagnostic et le traitement de la Syphilis

LEREDDE, Laurent V. (1866-1926) · 1912

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

Paris A. Maloine First (and only) edition of this illustrated pamphlet on the first serologic (complement fixation) test for syphilis, published just six years after the German bacteriologist August von Wassermann developed the test, in 1906. Slim royal 8vo (241 x 155mm): 43,[...

Paper Airplanes : 1911 and 1973 [Signed]

KOELEWYN, Arie · 1977

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

Philadelphia The Paper Airplane Press Limited Edition No. 13 of 25 copies numbered for sale (there were also 25 copied lettered for private distribution (A–Y) of this scarce pamphlet. Demy 8vo (216 x 141mm): [2],12.[2] pp, including two full-page diagrams and vignette on limit...

[Gastronomy] [Food & Drink] Les Plaisirs de la Table. Où, sous une forme nouvelle, l'Auteur a dévoilé maints délicieux secrets et recettes de bonne Cuisine, transcrit les précieux avis de Gourmets fameux et de fins Gastronomes, conseillers aimables et sûrs de l'Art du Bien-Manger. Préface de Robert de Flers. Dessins de P. F. Grignon

NIGNON, Édouard (1865-1934); Robert de Flers (Introduces); P. F. Grignon (Illustrates) · 1930

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

Paris Chez l'auteur / chez Lapina, Editeur Limited Edition Second Revised Edition, "where, in a new form, the author has revealed many delicious secrets and recipes for good cooking, transcribes the precious opinions of famous gourmets and fine gourmets, friendly and sure advi...

[Shape Book] [Children's/Juvenile] Los Viajes de Julita

BLANCA-GIL, María; María-Eugenia [Illustrates] · 1960

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

Barcelona Editorial Colón Die-cut shape book (247 x 180mm): 12pp, fully illustrated in color. A beautifully preserved example copy of this fragile juvenile. Near Fine+ A charming children’s book, in Spanish, featuring a beautiful blonde girl who travels with her family around...

[Music] Lieder

KAHANE, Arthur (1872–1932) · 1910

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

Berlin Oesterheld First Edition of this collection of short lyrical songs, in German, including works by Mendelssohn (Songs Without Words) and Chopin, selected by the dramaturge of Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater, in Berlin. Crown 8vo (184 x 120mm): 115,[1]pp. Publisher's gr...

[Sacco and Vanzetti] Facing the Chair: Story of the Americanization of Two Foreignborn Workmen

DOS PASSOS, John (1896-1970) · 1927

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,733)

Boston Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee First Edition First (and only) Printing of this official report of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, written by Dos Passos after visiting the two accused in Massachusetts prisons. Demy 8vo (214 x 147mm): 128p. Original stiff olive dr...

Bibliografia di Bernard Berenson [Inscribed]

MOSTYN-OWEN, William; Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) · 1955

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

Milano Published by Electa Editrice Limited Edition, No. 48 of 1000 copies, of Berenson's bibliography of books and articles on the history of art, notably Renaissance Italian painting. Royal 8vo (249 x 174mm): 74 French-folded leaves (printed on one side of the leaf), with fo...

Tenant Farmer [Signed]

CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987) · 1935

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

New York Phalanx Press First Edition Caldwell's scalding indictment of tenant farming and sharecropping in the Depression-era South, reserving especial contempt for Eugene Talmadge, then governor of Georgia. Signed by Caldwell on the title page. Slim 8vo (195 x 135mm): 30,[2]p...

Los Gangsters De Stalin [The Gangsters of Stalin]

TROTZKY [Trotsky], León (1874-1940) · 1940

$476.00 (€431.87 | £360.29 | ¥76,011)

Mexico Editorial América First Edition First Printing of Leon Trotsky's fragile, final book, published one month after his assassination, apparently at the behest of Joseph Stalin. In Spanish, with a prologue by Adolfo Zamora. 8vo (194 x 125mm): 191,[1]pp. Original Illustrated...

[Homelessness] The Milk and Honey Route : A Handbook for Hobos by Hobos

[Nels Anderson (1889-1986), writing as:] STIFF, Dean · 1931

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

New York Vanguard Press First Edition First Printing of this pioneering study by the noted Chicago-School sociologist. Crown 8vo (190 x 130mm): xiii,[3],13-219,[1]pp, with 16 full-page drawings (including frontispiece) by Ernie Bushmiller. Publisher's black cloth spine with pa...

Bacchus Behave! The Lost Art of Polite Drinking

WHITAKER, Alma (1880-1956) · 1933

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

New York Frederick A. Stokes First Edition First Printing of this scarce cocktail manual, with chapters describing manners and behavior around drinking, as well as chapter descriptions of cocktails, whisky, gin, brandy, Champagne, beer, etc. 8vo (206 x 136mm): [8],140pp. Publi...

A Bibliography of Henry James [Jacob Blanck's copy, presented by the authors]

EDEL, Leon, (1907-1997); LAURENCE, Dan H. · 1957

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London Rupert Hart-Davis First Edition First Printing, one of only 1,000 copies. Rare Presentation Copy, inscribed by Laurence on front fly-leaf and signed by both Edel and Laurence to the great bibliographer Jacob Blanck, with typed postcard signed from Edel to Blanck laid in...

Money and Investments : a reference book for the use of those desiring information in the handling of money or the investment thereof

ROLLINS, Montgomery (1867-1918) · 1907

$214.00 (€194.16 | £161.98 | ¥34,173)

Boston Dana Estes First Edition First Printing (no additional printings noted) of this dictionary devoted to definitions in untechnical language of the "most commonly used expressions and the most needed rules to aid the beginner in the handling of money and investments." Tal...

English Books 1475-1900. A Signpost for Collectors

SAWYER, Charles J. (1876?-1931); F. J. Harvey Darton (1878-1936) · 1927

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

New York E. P. Dutton Two thousand sets of this book have been printed at the Riverside Press . . . Tall, thick 8vo: xvi,[2],8-368; viii,423,[1]pp, with frontispiece, folding plate and 98 further full-page illustrations (chiefly facsimiles of title pages), many with tissue gua...

Vindiciae arboris genealogicae augustae gentis Carolino-Boicae, contra sistema authoris geneographi, qui in arbore genealogica ante paucos annos cupro incisa serenissimorum Bojorum principum fundatorem ponit Luitpoldum, et abrupta penitus arbore, negat Carolum Magnum . . .

WILHELM, Ignatius Franciscus Xaverius de · 1730

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

Monachii [Munich] Typis Mariæ Magdalenæ Riedlin First Edition First Edition of an important genealogical work dedicated to Prince-Elector Charles Albert (later Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII), tracing the descent of the Wittelsbach dynasty of Bavaria to Charlemagne. Two volume...

The Great Crash 1929

GALBRAITH, John Kenneth (1908-2006) · 1955

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London Hamish Hamilton First Impression First British Edition of this classic account of the perhaps greatest speculative boom in history, setting the stage for the Great Depression. Demy 8vo (212 x 134mm): 186pp, with frontispiece reproduced from The New Yorker Magazine. Publ...

[African American] [Gospel Music] [Plantation Lullabies] Songs Sung By The Canadian Colored Concert Co. The Royal Paragon Male Quartette And Imperial Orchestra : five years' tour of Great Britain, three years' tour of United States

[CANADIAN COLORED CONCERT CO.] · 1898

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

Hamilton, Ontario Duncan Lith., Co. Scarce souvenir songbook of "plantation lullabies," with sheet music for 13 songs and lyrics for 54 more, for the Canadian group's extended tours of Great Britain and the United States. Cover title: Canadian Colored Concert Co., Plantation l...

Xylograf F. Hendriksen. Bibliografi. Med en Inledning om F. Hendriksen som Skribent [The Wood Engraver F. Hendriksen . . . with an Introduction on F. Hendriksen as a Writer]

[HENDRIKSEN, Frederik, 1847-1939]; Georg Krogh-Jensen & Johs Lehm Laursen · 1944

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

København [Copenhagen] Forening for boghaandvaerk First Edition First and only printing of this bibliography and brief essay on wood engraver F. Hendriksen. Slim demy 8vo (211 x 139mm): 36,[2]pp, including four full-page plates. Publisher's light brown and sage green floral pa...

Grosseteste 1966-1975. A Descriptive Catalogue

[GROSSETESTE PRESS] LONGVILLE, Jim; John & Carol Riley · 1975

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

[Pensnett, Staffordshire] printed by Tony Ward at the Arron Foundation, Lumb Bank, Yorkshire First Printing Only edition of this indispensable reference for collectors of the Grosseteste Press. Oblong foolscap 8vo (112 x 142mm): [62]pp. Original stitched Navy blue card covers,...